Bill Belichick doesn’t have much to say about Reggie Wayne or Jonas Gray, Over the years, we’ve had enough stories about Bill Belichick not saying anything about a certain topic that we could build out an entire area of the website containing those stories.
The latest entry would deal with the decision to release veteran receiver Reggie Wayne. The player reportedly wanted out. Belichick (drum roll) had nothing to say about it.
“I’m sure there will be a lot of transactions here – there have been in the last couple of days, there will be I’m sure going forward, so we’ll just see how everything all turns out,” Belichick told reporters on Sunday. “We kept and are going to keep the people that we feel like are best for our football team. It’s not an easy decision. We feel that everyone on our team has value. We just have to try to figure out the best combinations and the best mix for us. That’s what we’re in the process of doing, and how things finally turn out here in a few days, we’ll just have to see.”
As he often does, Belichick provided no real insight on why it didn’t work out with Wayne, whether he wanted out, or whether Wayne could be back. Ditto for running back Jonas Gray, who rushed for more than 200 yards against the Colts on a Sunday night last season, showed up late for work later that week, and largely disappeared from view.
“Again, we kept the players on the roster that we feel like earned those spots and are the best players for our football team,” Belichick said of Gray. “That’s not in any way critical of anybody else. We just have to do what we feel like is best for our football team.”
Although it doesn’t provide much insight into why Wayne and Gray weren’t among the best 53, it also respects the players and their abilities. Over the past five days, every team had to drop from 90 to 53 players. The goal always is to keep the best 53, with an eye toward having enough at all of the various position groups.
For Wayne and Gray, Belichick had better options. And if those options weren’t better, those are the guys he’d be providing the same answers about today.
The latest entry would deal with the decision to release veteran receiver Reggie Wayne. The player reportedly wanted out. Belichick (drum roll) had nothing to say about it.
“I’m sure there will be a lot of transactions here – there have been in the last couple of days, there will be I’m sure going forward, so we’ll just see how everything all turns out,” Belichick told reporters on Sunday. “We kept and are going to keep the people that we feel like are best for our football team. It’s not an easy decision. We feel that everyone on our team has value. We just have to try to figure out the best combinations and the best mix for us. That’s what we’re in the process of doing, and how things finally turn out here in a few days, we’ll just have to see.”
As he often does, Belichick provided no real insight on why it didn’t work out with Wayne, whether he wanted out, or whether Wayne could be back. Ditto for running back Jonas Gray, who rushed for more than 200 yards against the Colts on a Sunday night last season, showed up late for work later that week, and largely disappeared from view.
“Again, we kept the players on the roster that we feel like earned those spots and are the best players for our football team,” Belichick said of Gray. “That’s not in any way critical of anybody else. We just have to do what we feel like is best for our football team.”
Although it doesn’t provide much insight into why Wayne and Gray weren’t among the best 53, it also respects the players and their abilities. Over the past five days, every team had to drop from 90 to 53 players. The goal always is to keep the best 53, with an eye toward having enough at all of the various position groups.
For Wayne and Gray, Belichick had better options. And if those options weren’t better, those are the guys he’d be providing the same answers about today.
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